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Black Bean Beef Chili Recipe - delicious, easy-to-make, cozy stew perfect for cold Fall and Winter days!
Last week has been really busy for me, where my job combined with the fact that we had friends visiting and staying with us for several days created such a shortage of time, that I am extremely grateful that there exist easy dinner recipes, such as this ground beef chili recipe with black beans.
While I was cooking all the time for our guests, starting at breakfast and ending with dinner, I unsurprisingly was able to capture none of the delicious recipes I made over the course of last week. Instead, I am presenting you with this simple bowl of beef chili and black beans, which is a perfect dish if you're tired and out of energy (which is how I feel this week) and want something simple, comforting and delicious. This chili recipe has a minimum of steps and zero complexity. Just throw ingredients in one pot, let it simmer, occasionally stirring, and you end up with a pure deliciousness.
Black Bean Beef Chili Recipe
Ingredients
Black Bean Beef Chili Ingredients:
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 onion , chopped
- 5 garlic cloves , chopped
- 1 carrot , chopped
- 1 tablespoon cumin
- ½ teaspoon cumin
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- 3 tablespoons chili powder
- 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
- 28 oz whole plum tomatoes , from the can
- 1 cup beef broth
- 15 oz black beans , from the can
- salt to taste
Toppings:
- ¼ cup grated cheddar cheese
- ¼ cup green onions
- ¼ cup sour cream
Instructions
- Heat vegetable oil in a large skillet, add ground beef and cook until browned and all juices came out on medium heat covered – about 10-15 minutes. Drain from grease and juices.
- In a large pan, heat olive oil on medium heat, add onions and garlic, cook for about 3 minutes, add carrot and continue cooking for 2 more minutes, stirring.
- Add cumin, paprika, chili powder, Italian seasoning to the onion mixture and continue cooking, stirring, to mix everything well. Add cooked and drained ground beef from step 1.
- Add canned tomatoes with juices, slicing tomatoes into small chunks before adding. Add beef broth. Bring mixture to boil and cook covered on low heat, simmering, for 1 hour.
- After 1 hour, add black beans, salt and continue cooking for 20 more minutes, covered.
- To serve, top with grated cheddar cheese, chopped green onions and sour cream.
Nutrition
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Black beans from the can, does that translate to NOT draining and rinsing them?
ingredients include:
- 1 tablespoon cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin
which is it?
It's 1 tablespoon + 1/2 teaspoon cumin, so it's both. 🙂 I think I worded it that way because of the way my recipe card was formatted at the time.
Do you drain the beans and rinse?
Yes, I do!
Didn’t have carrots so substituted some diced sweet potatoes. Very good flavor!
this is a fabulous idea. We eat black beans and salsa on baked sweet potato's Yum
Serving this with sweet potatoes sounds delicious!
Do you drain/rinse the black beans???
I love this chili. I searched the Internet for healthier options and found yours. According to myfitnesspal yours totals 208 calories per serving! Without the sour cream and cheese of course. Still with out this recipe tastes amazing. Even my liked it and she is not a chili fan.
Hi Anthony - so glad you liked the recipe and impressed you have the willpower to eat it without the cheese. 🙂
This chili is so yummy!!!!
My Family really enjoyed this simple, but great tasting Chili. I have made other recipes that are also excellent, but definitely more complicated. This is the kind of Chili recipe that everyone loves and has just the right amount of heat, even for the kids. This recipe will be on my menu monthly schedule. Thanks Julia!
This was wonderful, made it yesterday. Everyone loved it! Thanks so much. I replaced the beef with buffalo! The black beans were great.
Candace, so glad you liked it! Buffalo sounds so exotic - never had it! I bet it was so good in a chili! 🙂
Substituted: Costco smoked pulled pork, used black, pinto, butter beans & black eyed peas. 1 c carrots, fresh tomatoes. Smoked paprika. Wonderful... Loved it
Wow, JoAnn, your combination of ingredients sounds better than mine! 🙂 I need to try your version!
This is right up my alley! I love beans! Thanks for the recipe!
You have no idea how I want a bowl of this with a side of cornbread!
Love how simple this is - it's so nice to have meals like this when life is crazy! I just had some leftover chili that I froze for lunch this week too : )
I've never tried w/ black beans..Good idea..we had some this week also..
Looooooove it!!!! Julia, did you know that Brazilians are bean eaters? I like your idea to use black beans instead of the traditional pinto beans in your chili recipe. Like the pics as well. You always do a great job!!!!!!!!!! xx